The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-07-08
kelly LYNOHED AT DALLAS.
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News Notes Sent From Europe and the East

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ed dying. 1t is thought that he vii
mot survive the night.
DIXON GETS THREE YEARS.
c. p. Dixon, late Portland agent o
the Canadian Pacific railroad com
pany, who was indicted for embezzle
ment of funds from his employers
and recently captured on his return
from Victoria, tried and convicted
was sentenced to three years impris.
onment to-day by Judge Stearns
Dixon withdrew his plea of not
guilty and pleaded guilty in the hope
of recommending himself to the
clemency of the court.
LYNCHING OF MURDERER.
DALLAS, Polk Co, July Oscar
NJ. Kelly. of Polk Co.. who recently
murdered his wife under circum.
stances of peculiar atrocity, was
taken out of Jail last night and
lynched by gang of forty masked
men. The door Of the lower part of
the Jail was broken in, and the lynch
ers forced Harry Depew, the special
guard, to unlock the cell in which
Kelly was incarcerated.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Another special dispatch says:
"About forty men came into this
town at 1:45 this morning and forced
their way into the Jail, taking about
half an hour to do so; they then COM
PEELED the special guard of Kelly to
admit them into his cell when they
took him out and hung him to a tree
near by in the court house yard and
left him hanging. They were partly
masked. On first hearing them Kel-
ty broke his lamp and cut his neck,
wrists and ankles and was rapidly
bleeding to death. When the mob
seized him they asked him for state
ment, but his attendant, Harry De-
pew, who was forced to stay in the
jail, could not hear what he said.
An inquest was held at 3 o'clock.
The sheriff has gone TO make arrests.
THE MONMOUTH PARK RACES.
MoNMC UTH PARK, n. j., July T.
The attendance was rather light ow-
ing to threatening weather. In the
three-quarter mile Kolian won,
Preciosa second, Cambysees third;
time 1:151a. For two-year-olds three
quarter mile dash, Prince Royal won,
Ariban second, Satisfied third; time
lis. In the five furlongs Queen OF
Hearts won, Saluda second, Pampero
third; time 1:03.
CATTLE DISEASE IN NEBRASKA.
CHICAGO, July IA special from
Lincoln, Nebraska, says that the
state veterinarian received a dispatch
yesterday announcing that nothwith-
standing Nebraska's rigid quarantine
the Texas fever has broken out at
Tekamah, Burt county, and over
thirty cattle died since yesterday. 1t
is only now known that 1,C90 head OF
Texas cattle were unloaded at Teka-
nah in April, getting into the state,
it is supposed, through the conni-
vance of some quarantine official.
ROYALTY ROYALTY ENTERTAINED.
SAN Francisco, July THE quar-
terly report of the contingent ex-
penses of the mayors Office among
other things shows that queen Kahi-
olani, of Hawaii, and suite while here
were entertained by the mayor as the
official representative of the city, and
the municipal cash box was depleted
thereby to the extent OF S1415.
TO RESUME OPERATIONS.
SAN Francisco, July THE mint
will resume operations tomorrow,
the work of the annual clearing up
having been completed. Orders are
expected shortly, making disposition
of a large number OF ingots now in
the vaults, the remains Of old trade
dollars.
TO GET THEIR DESERTS.
SAN Francisco, July Cen. o. o.
Howard has been advised that a gen.
eral court marshal will be convened
to try the Apaches who deserted and
went on a raid in Arizona. The bucks
who joined them will be tried later.
A CHINESE REBELLION.
LONDON, July 7.-Advices from
China state that a rebellion took
place at Chang Chow, near Shanghai.
The uprising was suppressed by the
authorities and ninety conspirators
executed. A number of secret socie-
ties also rebelled in the province of
Kiangai. A military officer and
eleven soldiers implicated in the re-
bellion were captured and beheaded.
A DISABLED STEAMER.
LONDON, July THE steamer
GifU Of RicbgnO9lH which sailed